Resorting to murder - holiday mysteries
Resorting to murder - holiday mysteries
Holidays offer us the luxury of getting away from it all. So, in a different way, do detective stories. This collection of vintage mysteries combines both those pleasures. From a golf course at the English seaside to a pension in Paris, and from a Swiss mountain resort to the cliffs of Normandy, this new selection shows the enjoyable and unexpected ways in which crime writers have used summer holi
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Holidays offer us the luxury of getting away from it all. So, in a different way, do detective stories. This collection of vintage mysteries combines both those pleasures. From a golf course at the English seaside to a pension in Paris, and from a Swiss mountain resort to the cliffs of Normandy, this new selection shows the enjoyable and unexpected ways in which crime writers have used summer holidays as a theme. These fourteen stories range widely across the golden age of British crime fiction. Stellar names from the past are well represented - Arthur Conan Doyle and G. K. Chesterton, for instance - with classic stories that have won acclaim over the decades. The collection also uncovers a wide range of hidden gems: Anthony Berkeley - whose brilliance with plot had even Agatha Christie in raptures - is represented by a story so (undeservedly) obscure that even the British Library seems not to own a copy. The stories by Phyllis Bentley and Helen Simpson are almost equally rare, despite the success which both writers achieved, while those by H. C. Bailey, Leo Bruce and the little-known Gerald Findler have seldom been reprinted.
Specifikationer
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Attributvärde |
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Artikelkod
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9780712357487 |
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Författare
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Edwards, Martin |
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Förlag
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British Library |
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Imprint
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The British Library Publishing Division |
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ISBN
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9780712357487 |
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Listpris
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8.99 GBP |
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Mått
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128 x 188 x 26 mm |
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Mediatyp
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Pocket |
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Originaltitel
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Resorting to murder - holiday mysteries |
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Serie
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BRITISH LIBRARY CRIME CLASSICS |
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Sidantal
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320 |
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Språk
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Engelska |
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Utgiven
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2015-05-07 |
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Vikt
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293 g |